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Record Number: ABB0102

Related Work: Woodstock

Illustration Title/Caption: Oliver Cromwell

Keyword(s): Cromwell, General Oliver - Portraits

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: George B. Shaw

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 12.6 x 10

Date: 1846

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Abbotsford edition] (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 10, facing p. 311

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 10

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Portrait of Oliver Cromwell in military uniform. A reengraving of a portrait published in Edmund Lodge's 'Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain' (1821), where it appears as no. 9 in vol. 7, with more background and an additional figure, a child, adjusting the sash around Cromwell's waist. Title/caption also supplies facsimile signature of 'Cromwell'. Accompanying quoted text: 'He was a man of middle stature . . . depth of thought.' [Ch. 8]. Also appears in the Library Edition of the Waverley Novels as vol. 21 frontispiece: see #LIB0041.

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